# Things that rub you the wrong way, and you know it's stupid. Things where it annoys you that they annoy you **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 20, 2024, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-rub-you-the-wrong-way-and-you-know-its-stupid-things-where-it-annoys-you-that-they-annoy-you/1000558 "2024-04-20T20:26:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2024, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-rub-you-the-wrong-way-and-you-know-its-stupid-things-where-it-annoys-you-that-they-annoy-you/1000558/2 "2024-04-20T21:04:05Z")
This other thread is not quite the same thing, but I bet there’s some cross-pollination potential here. > [@How do you change your mind about something that bothers you?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-change-your-mind-about-something-that-bothers-you/1000364): > > Have you ever had something that bothered you a bit, but you decided you were unable to change that thing, so you wished to just adjust your attitude toward it and not let it bother you? Maybe a friend/relative you really like is always 5 minutes late. Or your SO is never ready to leave the house when you’ve agreed to leave? How do you adjust your thinking or your behavior so that you don’t have an unpleasant thought when it occurs, and don’t fleetingly revisit it after. Here’s the situation… This topic also seems more appropriate for IMHO or MPSIMS than Cafe Society, but that’s not my call. The OP can certainly report it himself if he wants a category change. As to the actual OP question. … Yes I do. I am annoyed by trivial delays. It pisses me off to see 200 yards of clear roadway ahead of the car I’m tailgating. Which distance we’re covering every 10 seconds. Ten _whole_ seconds!!! Same thing with people at the grocery store plodding along pissing away my seconds here and there. That is so dumb. I know it’s so dumb. It pisses me off that I’m stuck with ths habit that’s so dumb. But I can’t stop it. And then having lamented the loss of sooo many sets of a few seconds here and there, I’ll piss away 3 _hours_ gibbering at you folks on an otherwise gorgeous day when I ought to be outdoor having fun instead. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-rub-you-the-wrong-way-and-you-know-its-stupid-things-where-it-annoys-you-that-they-annoy-you/1000558)._